What have we lost?

On the way home, I’m stuck at that third set of traffic-lights in town, when it hits me: What was it that Paddy had found in that Dickens story?

About something large and wooden and wagon-like, with four legs either side? Just like the hayracks that used to be beside the barn outside? Is that what Dickens meant?

Could those hayrack things there move? On their own? Like the Wagon in the story?

And the farm-lads cut them up for firewood?

Oh god…

What about those logs, lying out in the fields, that the developers dumped onto the bonfires? If the hayrack things were wagons, what were those?

Could they move around as well? Uncle George used to work the farm at night – were they the farm-gear that he used? The equivalents of tractors, or harrows, or ploughs?

Was that what Aunt Kat meant when she said that she ‘didn’t know how to work the trees’, after he’d died?

Oh my god… – what have those guys done?

What have we lost?

On the way home, I’m stuck at that third set of traffic-lights in town, when it hits me: What was it that Paddy had found in that Dickens story?

About something large and wooden and wagon-like, with four legs either side? Just like the hayracks that used to be beside the barn outside? Is that what Dickens meant?

Could those hayrack things there move? On their own? Like the Wagon in the story?

And the farm-lads cut them up for firewood?

Oh god…

What about those logs, lying out in the fields, that the developers dumped onto the bonfires? If the hayrack things were wagons, what were those?

Could they move around as well? Uncle George used to work the farm at night – were they the farm-gear that he used? The equivalents of tractors, or harrows, or ploughs?

Was that what Aunt Kat meant when she said that she ‘didn’t know how to work the trees’, after he’d died?

Oh my god… – what have those guys done?

What have we lost?

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